Image: Graduation project | Maarten Peerdeman, Fine Arts 2010

General Information

The programme of Fine Arts educates students to become visual artists who are able to develop their artistry independently in an international context. You will learn to deal with every aspect of artistry within the stimulating climate of the KABK.

Developing professional conduct, control of work process and theoretical knowledge are key elements in this process. Self-reflection and awareness of the meaning of your own art work in context of the artistic and social world are vital conditions for the study in general and the personal development in particular.

Propaedeutic and an advanced course

The programme of Fine Arts is divided into a propaedutic course and an advanced course. The propaedutic year includes an intensive and extensive orientation on all four tracks of the advanced course-the sections Painting, Free Graphics, Interdisciplinary Attitudes and 3D. These sections offer a climate in which students are urged to meet the boundaries of the disciplines and to exceed them.

Exhibiting

Besides the lectures given in studios, there is also focus on an intensive exhibiting programme. Inside and outside of the Academy all aspects concerning exhibiting art will be discussed. This happens in association with the student's own development. The historic development into the contemporary sociocultural situation is also discussed in lectures. Seeing that the Fine Arts are no longer bound to traditional techniques, new media play an important role in the Academy's education.

Full-time and part-time programme

Students can participate in the programme of Fine Arts full-time as well as part-time. Fine Art is both offered as a four year fulltime and part-time study.

Part-time course

In addition to students who prefer to combine a paid job with an education, the part-time course is aimed at people who often, after following previous studies, respond to the desire to develop their talents in the fine arts through a proper study. We expect a lot of ambition and commitment of the students to eventually emerge as a professional artist.

In practice, a part-time job can be combined with a part-time study. You should consider that the part-time study approximately will cost you 30 hours per week including the lessons. At this moment the lessons are given in the evening. There is also an interesting excursion program that fits the curriculum and the timelines of the international contemporary world of art. Part-time students may also use all the facilities that the academy provides during the daytime. Students who are admitted to the exam year will be provided with a studio space within the academy.

Would you like to know more?

If you are interested in such a study you have to apply via Studielink. After you have registered you will receive an email in which the admission procedure will be explained.

During this week a selected group of ambitious students of the Fine Arts department, under the inspiring supervision of Barbara Seiler and Marcel van Eeden, will be working in the Gallery of the Royal Academy.

Young artists reflect on the historical events of 1989. What are the implications of the fall of communism in Romania 25 years ago and how do young artists relate to these topics? What dilemma’s do artists face today?

During the KABK Open Day students of the second year Fine Arts department present their Docking Station project Theatricality, Situation and the Object in Gallery 3. Theory and practice are joined in this project that features a collective artist studio. For their presentation the gallery will be transformed into a temporary space for action and production.

Nominees of the MK Award for contemporary art 2015 are: Nishiko, Gil and Moti and Fiona Tan. The winner will be announced on Feb 6 2015 in the Van Nelle factory Rotterdam! The jury consists of Edo Dijksterhuis, Erik Bos, Wim Bosch, Jannet de Goede and Alexander Ramselaar. http://mkaward.nl

Foundation Mirrors of Romania invites Dan Perjovschi to work at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) The Hague from 15 -19 December. The gallery of the KABK will become his studio during this time and the exhibition can be visited as a work in progress.

Coming Sunday AVRO’s Kunstuur TV programme presents the exhibition ‘Daar komen de Putters’ [Here are the Putters] which features newly made works from more than 40 artists, among which, many KABK alumni.

We are very proud to announce that six students of the Fine Arts department will be presenting their works in the exhibition The Value of Nothing at TENT.
In the past two months the students of the autonomous and 3D section have been working on a collaborative project, related to the running exhibition The Value of Nothing. On the 4th of November they have presented their works to a jury, consisting of Judith Vorwerk, Gil & Moti, Michel van Dartel and Jesse van Oosten, in the academy. Based on these presentations the jury has chosen three duos to exhibit their works in TENT, opening on the 14th of November at 16:00.

We are proud to announce that we have more good news about our Fine Arts alumni. After Katinka van Gorkum (nominated for the Theodora Niemeijer prize 2014) and Bob Eikelboom (winner of the Koninklijke prijs voor de schilderkunst 2014), Juliaan Andeweg (1986, NL) is the next rising star.

As of the summer of 2014 alumnus Marcel van Eeden graduated from the part time fine arts department of the Royal Academy of Art will be teaching in the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe.

On this day we will look at the impact of digital culture on ‘making’ and will investigate its significance for art education.
With lectures by:
Robert Hewison, Bas van Beek, Theo Ploeg and David Jablonowski

The symposium Unfixing Images focuses on visual documents that develop within processes of political resistance. As bi-products of larger socio-political struggles these documents can be understood both as visual traces of “lived politics” and as tools that can diversify hegemonial historiographies. In this context images are understood as “variational characters”: their “meaning” is inherently unstable as it is intimately linked to the temporality of the processes that bring them forth and continually influence how they are seen.

For the Royal Academy of Art, the quality of our education, and therefore of your study, is a top priority. We invite students, teachers and staff, alumni and other stakeholders on a regular basis to share their experiences and opinions with us.

On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Reprint Karel Martens’ (who has received the Gerrit Noordzij prize in 2012), this seminar takes place on Saturday 7 March from 13:00 to 18:00 in the Auditorium of the Royal Academy of Art.

Enjoy art and culture in the city of The Hague! During HOOGTIJ #40 on Friday March 6 from 19:00 to 23:00 pm, various galleries, artist-run initiatives and cultural institutions are open. Admission is free.

Students from various departments of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague scoured EYE’s film collections looking for films on the forbidden glance. The programme also includes Wild Beaming, an outdoor projection at EYE.

We invite you to join us for drinks during our fourth opening event with Royal Award for Modern Painting winner Niels Broszat. For five weeks only students and graduates of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague sell their products in Pop-Up STOOR. The weekly changing collection comprises collectable and affordable pieces made by ambitious artists and designers. From fashion accessories and small furniture to prints and photography. Cash only!

For five weeks only students and graduates of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague sell their products in Pop-Up STOOR. The weekly changing collection comprises collectable and affordable pieces made by ambitious artists and designers. From fashion accessories and small furniture to prints and photography. Cash only!

For five weeks only students and graduates of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague sell their products in Pop-Up STOOR. The weekly changing collection comprises collectable and affordable pieces made by ambitious artists and designers. From fashion accessories and small furniture to prints and photography. Cash only!

Saturday 18 October the 13th edition of the Dutch Design Week kicks off. During 9 days visitors can visit and experience more than 400 events around Eindhoven.
During the Dutch Design Week several KABK alumni & students are showing their work.

Fine Arts graduate Adrian Mazzarolo has been nominated for the TENT ACADEMY AWARDS 2014. His film 'Did you like cutting chicken with scissors? will be shown during the award show in cinema Cinerema Rotterdam on July 12th starting 8 pm.

RESEARCH LAB
Are you a hunter or an observer?
Find out what you are in the Research lab ‘Artistic Research in Documentary photography’.
Elective program for an interdisciplinary group of 3rd and 4th year students

During the ELLE Festival 2014 students and alumni of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) will show highlights from the BACK STAGE ON STAGE presentation previously shown at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milano 2014.

The Fund for Creative Industries and Cordaan invite designers to participate in a project that is aimed at improving the living environment of people with dementia. Six interdisciplinary teams will work in three care locations. Interested (interior) architects / designers can submit their motivation to participate until 29 June.

On Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June, everyone is welcome at the Dutch World Heritage Sites. The annual World Weekend this year is entirely devoted to Travel. Special activities are organized at all locations.

BACK STAGE ON STAGE, the presentation of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, (KABK) was a great success attracting 35.000 visitors at the renowned design fair Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan.
This year's edition of the Salone was held from 8 to 13 April 2014. With BACK STAGE ON STAGE The Royal Academy of Art literally put the creative process in the limelight: the presentation consisted of a continuous programme of performances and happenings, whereby drafts and products were created, shared, shown and dismantled on stage!
The trans-disciplinary programme gave room to all artistic disciplines in design and fine art.
Please see attachment for more information on the presentation in Milan.

The cahiers on display are the end result of the 'Research Lab: Are you a hunter or an observer?', they show the outcome of the research in relation to the documentation of the student’s work and the work of others.
The Research Lab is part of the Honours Programme of the Lectorate Art Theory & Practice.

24 until 28 March 2014 Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Presentation and exhibition 28 March until 4 April 2014
Opening Friday 28 March 16:00 hrs.
On Thursday 27 March 15:00, Marcel van Eeden will give a lecture in the auditorium of The KABK.
Opening Friday 28 March 16:00 hrs.

Like every year, the Student’s Choice Jury (5 students of The Hague’s University of Applied Science) has nominated 3 films from the Movies that Matter film program for the Student’s Choice Award. Students can visit the festival and see these 3 films for free! (makesure you’ll bring your studentcard)

Eye is calling students, the public and film professionals to send in their homemade recut trailers. The best ones will be shown on the big screen in EYE, and featured during the Night of the Recut Trailer, on May 9

Are you a young filmmaker between 15 and 30 years old? And are you not yet graduated from an art academy? Then the organisation of the Young Art Short Film Award would like to receive your short film. Categories are: animation, docu, fiction and experimental.

For our new project we're looking for someone who could shoot 3 short video's (in 3 languages) for us and edit them. In the beginning and middle of March we would like to start working on it and at the end of March it needs to finished. We don't have professional equipment, but you could use our GoPro. If you have good equipment yourself, that would be great. The compensation is 800 euro (Incl. Vat). If you're interested and/or you want more details, please send an email to info@inclusiveworks.eu.

The new competition :output award 2014 has started. Any work related to an area of Design or Architecture, usch as Graphic Design / Product Design / Typography / Photography / Illustration /Typeface Design / Multimedia, Moving Image, Interior Design and Archtitecture is eligible for submission. The winner will be awarded a scholarschip of 3000 Euro.

Roosje Klap (Head of Graphic Design) & Claudia Linders (Head of Interior Architecture & Furniture Design) designed the third commemorative two euro coin within the context of 200 years Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Out of a selection of 11 design proposals, Linders’ and Klap’s proposal was chosen as the winning design. On 25 November 2013 the new eurocoin was presented to the public by the vice president of the 'Raad van State' Piet Hein Donner.

As every year the Morelato company will produce the prototype of the winning project which will become part of the permanent collection of the MAAM, Museum for applied Art in the Furniture Field of the Foundation.
For the 2014 edition there are two major awards:
• First Prize “The Aldo Morelato Foundation – Opera Project” of € 5,000.00 (for professionals);
• The Student Awatd of € 2,500.00 (for students).

Integrated2013 is an international platform where students and professionals from the field of art and design can meet and exchange knowledge. New technologies and strategies will be discussed and looked at from multiple viewpoints. Tickets for students/teachers are 75 euros.

The winner will receive the prize of 10,000 PLN (about 2300 euro). Works of the winner and eight finalists will be presented at the exhibition during Fotofestiwal in June 2014 and as a slide show during international festivals of photography.

What do you think about when you hear the word Portugal? The Dutch embassy in Portugal invites you to design a book cover for an upcoming publication about Dutch-Portugees relations.
Deadline for submission: 31 October.

Nest invites all students of all departments to reflect or react to the importance of 'the ego' within the context of the exhibition 'Me, Myself and I'. Selected students will receive an intensive acquaintance with the world of contemporary art in October and November. Their work will be regarded and criticized by curators, writers and art professionals with the aim to reach the appropriate level for exhibition in a public art space.

Let's Talk is a series of evenings with guest lecturers from the creative sector. The series is organised by Creative Network and aims to inspire and bring together designers from various disciplines and the marketing/advertising community in Europe.

Vond. A is Roodkapje's experimental art jam session during which four individual artists create a collaborative interdisciplinary work. Their time-based disciplines such as video, sound, performance and installation art synthesize and form a new dimension. The audience plays an active and passive part in the process and thus produces and consumes this work simultaneously. This way the audience can experience both the process and the outcome.

November 14th and 15th 2013 the VERS Awards XL will take place! Are you a new, young filmmaker, and did you make a film which is not older than a year, and the screen time is not longer than 25 minutes? Sign up for the VERS Awards before oktober 14th, and maybe we will show your movie on the big screen, for an interested audience and critical judges.

Design a lamp for iFabrica in the theme bio-based, sustainable, reuse/recycle/upcycle, local and fitting within the context. The lamp will hang above a table used to cut textile in the crafts& textile workshop of iFabrica. Prizes are a year long memebership to iFabrica (value 1740 euros) and a basic course of your choice.

On September 15th, the Eendrachtplein in Rotterdam will be transformed into a temporary museum. Everybody can join. There is no curator or commission money. Just the possibility of an enormous audience.

The Tiele foundation awards a prize to the best thesis on the subject of book studies in the broadest sense. Everyone who finished a thesis at a Dutch University or HBO education in the academic year 2012/2013 is allowed to participate. Already published theses are excluded from entry. Launguage of the thesis should be Dutch or English

This autumn, Study in Holland and NL Agency are holding a Creativity contest for international students in all fields of study. This is a chance for you to win great prizes!
Why this contest?
Study in Holland promotes studying in, that's right, Holland, by showing that Holland is different from other countries because it is truly pioneering, creative and connected. And the best way to prove this is by asking you, the international student, to show how Holland has helped you to be a pioneer, be creative and get connected. Show us the most creative project that you are working on or have finished at your Dutch institution.

Hop on your bike to join Lorenz on a compostour to visit some local gardens that use composting in different ways. Meet other local gardeners and learn more about the possibilities for your organic waste. The fieldtrip ends at the Nutstuin again where Lorenz elaborates on his work and reveals his new designed compostbin for collective use.
Got a green thumb? Join Lorenz Olivier Schmid on Compostourism!
This Sunday
15th September
Nutstuin 13:00 – 17:00 + drinks
Send an email
to info@go-wander.org

This fall, Japanmuseum SieboldHuis and Gallery Diana Lepelaar inniate the art project “Samurai Warrior”. 60 artists will be chosen by an expert jury to exhibit their work in the museum from 7 December 2013 till 9 March 2014. The pieces will be offered for sale and 100 % of the profits will go to the artists. Also the winning artist will receive a cash prize and a solo exhibition in Galery Diana Lepelaar.

Etsy wants to help you start your own shop. Visit www.etsy.com/promotions, enter the code ‘Fin’ and pay no listing fees for your first 20 items. The offer is valid for one use per new seller and will be available until September 30th. It’s a simple way to get started on Etsy and sell your handmade items to customers all over the world.

As we are slowly but surely approaching the ninth edition of the TodaysArt Festival, we would like to ask for your help again!
The ninth edition of TodaysArt will transform the former ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice. These iconic towers - 124.000 M2 of currently vacant space - are located in the geographical and political city centre of The Hague right next to the Spuiplein, the traditional heart of the festival. In addition, the festival will take place in the City Hall’s Atrium and the public space in between these buildings.

On Tuesday 18 June 2013, from 11.45 till 13.00 hrs, the Centre for Innovation in The Hague will organise their first Inspiration Lab session. Head of the AR Lab, Yolande Kolstee, and professor at Leiden University, Robert Zwijnenberg will present their views on art and technology during this event. The importance of art and technology in education and future research are up for discussion.
Place of venue:
Leiden University Campus The Hague
Schouwburgstraat 2
2511 VA The Hague

Entries for THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, the 20th edition Chamont Student competition, are now open. The competition is aimed at design students enrolled in public or private art schools, universities, technical and vocational schools for the current year 2012-2013.

Simon Levelt invites you to design a new saucer for coffee cup ‘ONE’. The 3 winning designs will be produced (in limited edition) and sold in the stores of Simon Levelt. An expert jury will decide the best (future) professional and amateur design. Also they will nominate the ‘runner-up’ for the third award: the public prize.

Can the roots of our current economic and financial crisis be made tangible through photography? The Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2013 aims to peer into what has caused our current state of affairs, particularly into the so-called '1%' and its financial and political power at the expense of the '99%'. For this challenging theme, Noorderlicht calls upon the photographic community to help to build an inspired, profound and heartfelt exhibition.

Start of M2LIVE, the event for young and creative talent in the Bonnefantenmuseum. All student filmmakers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are invited to send in their movie for the M2LIVE Film Award 2013.